The tourism encounter : fashioning Latin American nations and histories / / Florence E. Babb

• Autore: Babb Florence E
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/7918
• Soggetto topico: Turisme; Turisme cultural; Política; Memòria col·lectiva; Culture and tourism - Latin America; Tourism - Political aspects - Latin America; Collective memory - Latin America
• Soggetto geografico: Amèrica Llatina; Latin America Politics and government 1980-
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-230) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Che, Chevys, and Hemingway's daiquiris : Cuban tourism in transition -- Recycled sandalistas : from revolution to resorts in the new Nicaragua -- Forgetting the past : Andean cultural tourism after the violence -- Remembering the revolution : indigenous culture and Zapatista tourism -- Sex and sentiment in Cuban and Nicaraguan tourism -- Race, gender, and cultural tourism in Andean Peru and Chiapas, Mexico -- Conclusion: post-tourism and nationhood.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book considers the recent growth of tourism in transitional societies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Research in Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru reveals that tourism often takes up where social transformation leaves off and may even benefit from the formerly off-limits status of nations that have undergone periods of conflict or rebellion.
• Titolo autorizzato: The tourism encounter
• ISBN: 0-8047-7560-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810308603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II